Pawsox 6, RailRiders 2: Doyle pitches Pawtucket to road win

In his debut for the PawSox, Warwick’s Terry Doyle held Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to one hit in 61/3 innings as Pawtucket cruised to a 6-2 victory on Sunday.

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Posted Apr. 7, 2013 @ 7:12 pm

MOOSIC, Pa. — In his debut for the PawSox, Warwick’s Terry Doyle held Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to one hit in 61/3 innings as Pawtucket cruised to a 6-2 victory on Sunday.

In becoming Pawtucket’s first starter to go past the fifth inning, Doyle (1-0) overcame five walks and a hit batsmen, as the PawSox (4-0) completed a four-game series sweep of the New York Yankees’ Triple-A affiliate.

Ryan Lavarnway led off the second inning with a four-pitch walk, before advancing to second on a wild pitch. Two outs later, Mark Hamilton drilled a ground-rule double off the warning track just to the right of the 308-foot marker in center field.

In the third, Jonathan Diaz’s sharp grounder ricocheted off pitcher Brett Marshall’s (0-1) foot for an infield single. Marshall remained on the mound and walked the next two batters. Drew Sutton followed with a sacrifice fly and Lavarnway lined a two-run single to open a 4-0 lead.

Yet another walk by Marshall, his fourth in 3.0-plus innings, opened the fourth and led to an RBI single by Justin Henry to make it, 5-0.

Hamilton drove in another run with his third hit of the day, a seventh-inning single at the expense of reliever Josh Spence.

The RailRiders (0-4) scored against newcomer Ryan Rowland-Smith in the eighth and again in the ninth, off Anthony Carter.